{"id":652157,"date":"2025-12-24T08:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652157\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:47:15","slug":"colorado-woman-suspected-of-killing-2-of-her-children-is-extradited-from-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/652157\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado woman suspected of killing 2 of her children is extradited from the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

DENVER — A Colorado woman suspected of killing two of her young children during a custody dispute with her ex-husband two years ago has been returned from Britain to the United States to face charges<\/a>, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Colorado Springs-based District Attorney Michael Allen announced the extradition of Kimberlee Singler, 37, on charges including two counts of first-degree murder ahead of her first court appearance in the coming days.<\/p>\n

Singler was arrested in December 2023 in London just over a week after her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son were found dead in their home in Colorado Springs. Her 11-year-old daughter was injured but survived. The girl eventually told an investigator that her mother said God made her do it, according to court documents in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Singler, who had superficial knife wounds, told police that a man who entered the apartment was responsible. She was initially considered a victim.<\/p>\n

The surviving daughter backed up Singler\u2019s claim at first, but police sought to arrest Singler on Dec. 26, 2023, after they said the girl changed her story. By then Singler was gone. She was found four days later<\/a> in London\u2019s upscale Chelsea neighborhood and arrested. It is not known why she ended up there.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday really is a significant milestone in this criminal investigation,\u201d Colorado Springs Police Chief Adrian Vasquez said at a news conference. \u201cSingler is accused of committing an unthinkable act. … I know these acts have deeply impacted this community, and our hearts remain with the victims.”<\/p>\n

Allen said Singler will be held without bond at least until a preliminary hearing on whether there is sufficient evidence to proceed toward trial. That hearing typically is scheduled within 30 days of an initial court appearance, with some exceptions, he said.<\/p>\n

Allen said the surviving child, now 13, is expected to be a key witness at trial. He otherwise declined to discuss details of the prosecution’s case beyond procedural steps. <\/p>\n

The FBI and Colorado Springs police traveled to London to take custody of Singler, who fought extradition and denied attacking her children. <\/p>\n

Her London defense attorney, Edward Fitzgerald, argued that she should not be extradited because if convicted of first-degree murder in Colorado, she would face a mandatory sentence of life without parole \u2014 a sentence that violates European human rights law. <\/p>\n

Fitzgerald represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange<\/a> in his long fight against extradition to face espionage charges in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Singler did not yet have a U.S.-based attorney listed as representing her in court documents, according to the court clerk\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

A judge rejected Singler’s challenge in January 2025, and her bid for an appeal was denied in November. <\/p>\n

Singler also faces one count of attempted murder, three counts of child abuse and one count of assault.<\/p>\n

According to U.K. court documents, the children’s bodies were found by police shortly after midnight on Dec. 19, 2023. Police said they found no footprints in the snow leading to a patio where Singler said an intruder entered through an unlocked door and attacked her, causing her to lose consciousness.<\/p>\n

She told police that her ex-husband \u201chad previously dreamt about killing his family, that the children\u2019s father was always trying to \u2018frame her\u2019 and \u2018get her arrested\u2019 and to have the kids taken away from her,\u201d Judge John Zani said in a January ruling against Singler in Westminster Magistrates’ Court.<\/p>\n

Police said GPS records showed that her ex-husband was driving a truck about 80 miles (130 kilometers) away at the time of the killings.<\/p>\n

The family had been staying with Singler\u2019s mother during the custody battle, but the mother was away at the time, according to court documents in the U.K. <\/p>\n

The day before the bodies were found, a judge in Colorado ordered Singler to comply with a previous order to allow the father to take custody of them for the holidays, according to state court records. She was told to either give the children to her ex-husband on her own or bring them to a court hearing Dec. 20, 2023, to exchange custody there.<\/p>\n

On the day of the hearing, Singler asked the judge to delay it, saying in a motion that she and her children had been attacked and two of them were murdered. She asked for time to grieve and \u201cgain my bearings after this incident.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER — A Colorado woman suspected of killing two of her young children during a custody dispute with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[199568,3907,748,389,30,393,85475,4179,4884,47723,7147,2003,7136,1144,712,7143,16,15,1764,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-652157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-199568","11":"tag-article","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-children","14":"tag-courts","15":"tag-england","16":"tag-extradition","17":"tag-general-news","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-homicide","20":"tag-indictments","21":"tag-law-enforcement","22":"tag-legal-proceedings","23":"tag-northern-ireland","24":"tag-scotland","25":"tag-u-s-news","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-wales","29":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115773678873365037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}